Hi - just a quick note to say happy new year and we are slowly ramping up services/etc. again after the time away. Well, it wasn't really time away, as Jeff and I (and Eric and Dan) were all around dealing with the planned, massive lab wide power outages during the holidays. Of course there were some glitches, not sure if I'll ever get around to spelling them all out... nothing really all that exciting except one file server keeps coming up in "forced RAID resync" mode despite going down gracefully. This is why we're still keeping the project offline for now. Not so great, but I took the opportunity to do tomorrow's usual outage today. So once the RAID is resync'ed (tomorrow morning, hopefully), we'll turn everything on.

That one mysql database server did crash again, as it usually does, thus getting the replica out of whack. I'm also cleaning that up today.

- Matt-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Hi - just a quick note to say happy new year and we are slowly ramping up services/etc. again after the time away. Well, it wasn't really time away, as Jeff and I (and Eric and Dan) were all around dealing with the planned, massive lab wide power outages during the holidays. Of course there were some glitches, not sure if I'll ever get around to spelling them all out... nothing really all that exciting except one file server keeps coming up in "forced RAID resync" mode despite going down gracefully. This is why we're still keeping the project offline for now. Not so great, but I took the opportunity to do tomorrow's usual outage today. So once the RAID is resync'ed (tomorrow morning, hopefully), we'll turn everything on.

That one mysql database server did crash again, as it usually does, thus getting the replica out of whack. I'm also cleaning that up today.

I have a server-class RAID card that also does that whenever I shutdown from Windows XP.

There are two solutions to my knowledge:
1) Install a battery-backup on RAID card;
2) Reboot (instead of shutdown) and wait at the OS Loader (GRUB) menu for a few seconds. This gives the RAID card plenty of time to write all buffers. If you RAID card is 3WARE/AMCC, be sure the firmware is configured for "Balance" or "Protected". Power-down after all drives are idle.

All you boys behind SETI can't catch a bloody break which you guys need (and deserve) more than anything right now. Do you guys even sleep at night? This is dedication at it's finest but all humans need sleep!! SLEEEEP!!!

Happy new year back . ok i gotta go work hopefulyy things will be back to normal tonight when i get home and my machione will be happliy cruncing again thanks for the quick response i gotta catch a ferry to the city .

There are many people that know the new decade doesn't start until next year. Just like the millennium didn't start until 2001. There was no year 0, so 1-10 is the decade. It always starts on the 1.

Well a decade is just a period of 10 years. So every year is a new decade. Generally people like to group periods like say the '90's into decades. I think the term I've heard for 2000-2009 is the naughts, & I'm sure people will call 2010-2019 the "teens" even those 10, 11, & 12 are not 'teen numbers.

Actually 2001 was a milestone year:
A new decade (10)
A new century (100)
A new sesquicentennial (150)
A new bicentennial (200)
A new semiquincentennial (250)
A new quadricentennial (400)
A new quincentennial (500)
A bew millennial (1000)
And the first bimillennial (2000)

Of course, it is common sense (??) to all those people that click the stopwatch to time a 100 metre race at the commencement of the hundredth metre!!!!
They all get much better times than those who finish at the end of the hundredth metre!!!!

But, of course, the whole argument can be solved if all the runners "Get set and Go" a metre behind the starting line.

What incredible logic the whole world was led to believe at the so-called end of the millennium!!!!